Left in the West : literature, culture, and progressive politics in the American West /
"Left in the West is an edited collection bringing together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural left in the American West, especially as it is distinct from the more often-theorized literary left in New York and major eastern metropolitan centers...
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2018]
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1925303 |
Mục lục:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Introduction: Literature, Culture, and the Left in the American West; Part I: Left Movements: Institutions and Ideologies; 1. "Activism Brings Out the Best in All of Us": Toward a History of Peace and Justice Movements in Utah from the 1960s to the Present; 2. Deep Ecology in Humboldt County: Bill Devall and a Philosophy for Action; 3. "An International, Dissident, Insurgent Ferment": Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Left Coast; 4. The Traditional Roots of Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads
- 5. Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running: Between Chicano Nationalism and the LeftPart II: Left Readings: Rewriting Region and Radicalism; 6. Eschaton of Abundance: Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think as Transcendentalist Satire; 7. Mari Sandoz: A Writer's Politics; 8. "Poisons Up to the Waist in a Junkyard of Breaking Machines": Peter Berg, Bioregional Ethics, and the Trouble with the Master's Tools; 9. Contact Points: The Roadside Diner's Machinery of Work in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath; 10. "The Queen of the Mad Frontier": Settler Colonialism and Jack Spicer's Queer Politics
- Part III: Left in Transit: Success and Limitations11. New Bohemias, California Style: The Intimate and Global Networks of Photographic Modernism; 12. "Backward in Time and Forward in Dream of Unknown Memory": Deborah Miranda's Unsettling Colonial Genealogies; 13. Leaving the West for the Left: Louise Thompson Patterson, the New Negro Movement, and Black Women's Activism; 14. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Race, and the California Suffrage and Women's Club Movements, 1896-1911; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index; About the Editor